Increasing activity by data hackers has produced millions of victims and one clear winner: the credit monitoring business.
Services with names such as BillGuard and Identity Guard report a surge in sign-ups from people anxious to be protected. Nervous...

Here's a riddle for all you trigonometry fans: What do you call it when a student asks dad or grandma to help them take out a college loan to study advanced math?
Getting someone to co-sign so you can study cosines.
Trust me: Somewhere, a university...

A new White House report on privacy and data collection says the mass collection of information is “saving lives” but calls for additional safeguards in how personal information is stored and collected.
The report, issued Thursday, is the...

For the first time, more people own smartphones than basic cell phones, according to the Consumer Electronics Association.
Nearly two-thirds, 64 percent, of U.S. households own smartphones, the group said Thursday in its annual Household CE Ownership...

LONDON -- Philippe Dauman, chief executive of Viacom, spoke to Variety about why the company has bought U.K. free-to-air broadcaster Channel 5, and the opportunities that exist for further strengthening the network's position in the territory.
"It's a...

WASHINGTON — A new White House report on mass collection of data concludes it is "saving lives" but calls for more privacy safeguards to secure personal information from being leaked, shared without permission or used to discriminate.
The report,...

A rush among the nation's largest pay-TV and Internet providers to get even bigger could have profound effects on consumers and competition.
Telecommunications giant AT&T has approached DirecTV about buying the satellite broadcaster in a bid to become...

The Baltimore Sun Media Group is buying up more newspapers ("Sun purchases Annapolis and Carroll papers," May 2). Why? It cannot seem to adequately manage The Baltimore Sun, its premier publication.
After elimination of all competition, Baltimore is...

On one side are technologists, preaching that open access to unlimited Internet bandwidth is the bedrock of innovation for a 21st-century economy — and is under threat.
On the other are telecommunications giants that say they are equally committed...

The scientific evidence on genetically engineered food, which has been around for two decades, indicates that it is as safe for human consumption as any other food. A California bill that would require the labeling of bioengineered food — whose...